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Puhti and Mahti are being decommissioned in stages, and their storage areas will become fully unavailable from 15 October 2026. Clean up unnecessary files and move any data you need to keep by 31 August 2026. See the Roihu data migration guide for instructions on transferring your data to Roihu.

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Praat

Praat is a toolkit for annotating, processing and analysing speech and other audio samples. It is widely used in phonetics and speech research for tasks such as labelling recordings, measuring pitch, formants and intensity, and manipulating and synthesising speech.

Available

  • Puhti: 6.4
  • Roihu: 6.4

License

Praat is free software, licensed under the GNU General Public License, version 3 or later.

Usage

Initialize Praat with:

module load praat

Praat is primarily a graphical application; the best way to run it remotely is through the Puhti web interface remote desktop. It can also be run without a graphical interface for scripted batch processing:

praat --run script.praat

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